CLC Book Reviews, November 2000
This book is or counsellors or anyone concerned about the question of parental responsibility. Much teaching given out by psychologists in the first half of the 20th century could be summed up in the words "Your problem is someone else's fault". The person most linked to the child's early development is the mother so she was the one who got most of the blame . . . .The subject is one that is still causing many women to feel guilty or a failure. This book gives some good clear guidelines of how to escape from this trap.
From the Back Cover
How often do you hear or read of mothers being blamed when their children go off the rails? Some even blame themselves. The point here is not to find someone else to blame (absent fathers, say, or school or even the children themselves) but to hear out the 'blame', to work through how justified it may be and the to deal with any remaining guilt according to Christian grace.